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by ikailan 14y ago
I don't think it's about the language - it's about knowledge. A backend specialist can learn Javascript but may not know the nuances of working with the DOM, or optimizing for pagespeed, or the important front end libraries. Similarly, a fr
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by ikailan 14y ago
(I'm hosted on Wordpress; that's their problem now)
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by ikailan 14y ago
It was a huge gain because the original Rails servers were running on single threaded Mongrel and blocking on cross data center IO.
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by ikailan 14y ago
Actually, we aggressively cached, which led to weird things happening. I posted a follow up about this explaining more context - I hope it gets voted up.
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by ikailan 14y ago
I was on the team at LinkedIn when we first wrote the thing on Ruby on Rails. Here's my writeup containing some more context: http://ikaisays.com/2012/10/04/clearing-up-some-things-about... While I'll freely admit v8 is much faster than M
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Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js(ikaisays.com)
205 points by ikailan 14y ago|32 comments
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by ikailan 14y ago
I think it's one thing to overly minimize risk, it's another entirely to take stupid risks where the payoff doesn't match the risk. I play sports and get injured from time to time (I am still healing from an ankle injury sustained months ag
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by ikailan 14y ago
There's an earlier comment about how this makes you a danger to OTHERS. If you're just a danger to yourself, that's that.
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by ikailan 14y ago
Oh, okay, I can buy that. Guess I'm thinking like a city rider. I used to read a lot of bike blogs in SF and in almost every case where the biker was seriously injured, they were not wearing a helmet.
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by ikailan 14y ago
Food is so delicious after a long ride. This is true in general of strenuous exercise. You've earned it!
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by ikailan 14y ago
What's the benefit of not wearing a helmet when biking?
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by ikailan 14y ago
Agree with the headphones bit. I can't believe it when people bike in a city with headphones and no helmet on.
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by ikailan 14y ago
I agree with almost everything said here. When I was living in San Francisco, though, my bike commute was only slightly longer than my bus commute (not because I am that fit, only because buses in San Francisco are terrible). SO MUCH less s
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by ikailan 14y ago
I don't think Zynga and Groupon are tech darlings ...
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by ikailan 14y ago
(I noticed that this was posted by Sean) Congrats to Sean! For people that aren't aware, for a long time, Sean was the lone product manager on Google App Engine, and he played a significant role in helping that product scale.
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What your handbag says about you(blog.tarynzhang.com)
1 points by ikailan 14y ago|0 comments
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by ikailan 14y ago
While Python is a sizeable part of App Engine (SDK, admin console, tooling .. some other things I can't remember right now), the majority of the code is Java and C++. It's one of the reasons Python isn't listed as one of the top needs ( htt
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[comic] What is it like to fix bugs in legacy software?(plus.google.com)
10 points by ikailan 15y ago|0 comments